Gilmour has done the Rick Beato interview!

[DaveTheRave]

Well. I don't think HE does anything on social media lmao.

“The voice and guitar and webmaster of Pink Floyd”

[madhombre]

I thought this was a pretty interesting interview some repeats of old stories but on the whole a good watch

Thanks for posting

[Alanko]

Welp, didn't feel like Rick managed to break the ice here. David's gotta be a real tough guy to interview. Ironic after all these years when Roger was the one with the rep for orneriness. I dunno. Maybe Dave just doesn't have much to say that he doesn't say through his guitar. But I still would have expected Rick to get deeper into the nuts and bolts of the music than he did here. Perhaps he's more comfortable and at ease when he's talking to session guys.

The only time I've seen the ice broken was in the Alan Yentob (BBC?) documentary a few years ago. David talked about his parents' absence during his youth, then his mother's overbearing attempt to close the emotional gap. It was a brief aspect of the interview, but it said a lot by saying little (sort of like his guitar playing?).

David isn't a session musician and doesn't think like one. He won't have heartwarming stories about sneaking Gbmaj7sus4 chords into Steely Dan songs, or have that hustler athlete mentality of a drummer who played on a million AOR hits in the '80s. People who have tracked David down for session work have done so because they want him to do his thing, rather than be an everyman guitarist like Steve Lukather.

Other thoughts are that David sounded a bit drained or possibly ill during the interview and he tends to answer questions directly rather than use them as a vehicle to share war stories and name drop (check out Beato's interview with Rick Wakeman to see this sort of thing!).

Hard not to imagine Polly, like Lady MacBeth, sitting unseen in the corner of that interview room. Prior to David even entering the building she's handed a crib sheet to Rick Beato: no Pink Floyd discussion involving naming any other members, don't cite band politics, never mention Roger Waters, The Wall, anything pre-DSOTM, DSOTM itself... stick to questions about his new album and make it seem like David's magnum opus.

[beeco]

First paragraph, totally agree. That's the best Dave interview going...
But christ, that last paragraph is just shit. Embarrassing.

[blauwdruk]

Language….!!!!

[Sorrow2024]

It is totally normal these days for interviews to be told what they can or cannot ask, so i kinda get that and here is there to talk about his new album and not go over stuff he has been asked a million times before. Understandable anything Roger band politics be off topic. Its not embarrassing

[DaveTheRave]

The only time I've seen the ice broken was in the Alan Yentob (BBC?) documentary a few years ago. David talked about his parents' absence during his youth, then his mother's overbearing attempt to close the emotional gap. It was a brief aspect of the interview, but it said a lot by saying little (sort of like his guitar playing?).

When the Later Years came out they had that 4-episode podcast called Lost Art of Conversation. I recall on one episode hearing David sounding emotional describing the lawsuit vs Roger and Roger’s negative impact on Nick and Rick. Sounded like a really horrible time.

”It's a difficult thing to discuss. It's a painful thing for all of them to discuss, because Roger's departure had damaged people, because I talked about it at the time, but it's very tricky to... anyway.

We got to Los Angeles, and I think pretty much up to that moment, we had used click tracks and drum machines and so on and so forth, and we started in Los Angeles by adding drums to these tracks, and it all was really, really coming together. We had the good songs, we had Learning To Fly on the Turning Away, Sorrow, these were, for me, sort of the big moments, I suppose you could say, and it, yeah, sorry, it's just, some of this stuff is very awkward to steer around.

That must have been very, very difficult to navigate.

It was, I mean, and, you know, Rick was coming in and working sometimes, and Nick was there, you know, but there were difficulties.”

From The Lost Art Of Conversation - A Pink Floyd Podcast: Studio, Nov 24, 2019
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...57753275&r=635
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